9 papers
Physically motivated AGN emissivity profiles and their effects on quasar microlensing signatures. 1. Multi-epoch accretion disc size inference
Scott Hagen, Carina Fian
Quasar microlensing is uniquely sensitive to the size-scale of the accretion flow, offering one of the few direct probes of the accretion structure on micro-arcsecond scales. Howev…
Understanding the Broad-line Region of Active Galactic Nuclei with Photoionization. II. Slim disks, Self-shadowing, and BLR sizes
Qiaoya Wu, Yue Shen, Chris Done +2
Reverberation-mapping (RM) measurements have revealed that high-accretion-rate active galactic nuclei (AGNs) systematically lie below the canonical broad-line region (BLR) radius -…
Unveiling BLR Structure in AGN with High Resolution X-Ray Spectra: An Analytic Approach to Wind Emission Line Profiles
Scott Hagen, Chris Done, Gabriele A. Matzeu +1
XRISM has provided an unprecedented view of the emission and absorption lines in the X-ray. Notably, early results showed significant complexity to the Fe-K line profile in AGN…
Untangling the Complex Nature of AGN Variability with Fairall 9
Scott Hagen, Chris Done, Edward M. Cackett +5
The accretion flow in AGN is not well understood, motivating intensive monitoring campaigns of multiwavelength variability to probe its structure. One of the best of these is the 3…
Disk-jet coupling across the spectral transition in supermassive black holes
Jia-Lai Kang, Chris Done, Scott Hagen +5
Accretion flows in both stellar and supermassive black holes show a distinct spectral transition. This is seen directly in binaries and changing look AGN, and also in a recent samp…
XRISM Spectroscopy of Accretion-Driven Wind Feedback in NGC 4151
Xin Xiang, Jon M. Miller, Ehud Behar +17
The hottest, most ionized, and fastest winds driven by accretion onto massive black holes have the potential to reshape their host galaxies. Calorimeter-resolution X-ray spectrosco…